Cab storage arrangement



(N Model.)

v E. F. MANN.

GAR STORAGE ARRANGEMENT.

No. 567,487. Patented Sept. 8, 1896.

UNITED STATES :PATENT @OFF'I'CE.

EDGAR F. MANN, `or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AssIeNoR or oNE-I-IALF To FORD sTARRING, lor SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of ietters Patent No. 567,487, dated September 8, 1896. Application iled NovemherZO, 1895. Serial No. 569,578. (No model.)

To all whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR F. MANN, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of' Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Storage Arrangements, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in car-storage arrangements intended to facilit-ate the removal of cars from a building in case of fire.

The drawing is a diagrammatic elevation of my invention.

In operating electric railways'it is customary to store the cars, when not in use, in a building provided with one or more tracks, and to leave the trolley out of contact with the trolley-wire above the tracks when the cars are stored to prevent accidental moving thereof.

It'sometimes happens that the building in ily and easily removable from a burningu building so long as the trolley-wires and tracks remain in condition for service by the hereinbelow-described arrangement` D represents a building or car-barn, shown for purposes of illustration as containing three tracks, A, B, and C, connected. with and branching from a main track M. Of course there may be any number of tracks, and these tracks may be connected with switches, as shown at L.

E, F, and G represent three trolley-wires, extending over the respective tracks A, B, and C into the building D, and each connected with the main trolley-wire M, or with a feeder, so as to receive current therefrom. At a point preferably outside of the building D, but which may be within the building if desired, so long as it is outside of the point of contact of the trolley of the outside car on the track A, B, and C with the trolleywire, I break the trolley-wire, as shown in the drawing, and connect the two ends, as shown, by the conductor e e with a switch J, there being preferably a switch K for the trolleywire E, another switch I for the trolley-wire F, another switch H for the trolley-wire G, the conductors f fand g g connecting said trolley-wire with said switches, and so on 5 or, if preferred, there may be a single switch provided with a number of pointsV for the different trolley-wires, or all the switch-handles may beoperated upon one lever, though I prefer independent switches for each trolleywire.

The operation of my invention is as follows: Switch J, which is shown as opened in the drawing, is closed and a line of cars run into the barn D on track A. When this track is full,`the switch J is opened, thus cutting off the current from that part of trolley-wire E which is within building D. An attendant then places the trolley'of each car' on track A in Contact with the trolley-wire E andsets the controller of each car in proper position to move the car at a low rate of speed along track A toward the main track M, and the cars can be safely left in this condition, as no current will pass to their motors. The other tracks B and C when used are filled up in the same way and the same adjustments used. If, now, it becomes necessary for any reason to get thecars out of the building, and it is difficult or dangerous for an attendant to get access thereto, simply closing the switch .I will cause all the cars on track A to move slowly toward the door, and if any car except the last happens to be disabled it will be pushed out by the car or cars behind it, and thus all the cars can be removed safely and rapidly from the building. If side tracks are uused inV said building in connection with the single entrance-tracks, as is sometimes used, the switch L may be connected by a rod K with a switch-lever outside oiy the building, in which case the trolley-wire leading to said side track across said switch may be provided with a separate switch, such as is herein shown for the main tracks. Of

course it will be` understood that the breaks in the trolley-wires E, F, and G, although represented in the drawing as of considerable dimensions, will be so small that the trolleywheel will not maketoo large a spark in passing said break, and I prefer to so make this ICO The combination with a track and a side track contained-Within a building, olf-trolleycars and trolley-Wires extending above said tracks, means for throwing said trolley-Wires in and out of circuit from a point Without vthe building, and means for operating the switches ,connecting said tracks from a point also Without the building, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

EDGAR F. MANN.

W'itnesses DENTON GUINNEss, AMELIA J. WILLIAMS. 

